Hideo Kojima has revealed what happened when Sony stopped funding Physint, and the situation was more serious than many expected.In an interview with IGN, Kojima said Sony called him to a Zoom meeting in June and told him they could no longer fund the project, his mind went blank as he immediately worried about the future of Kojima Productions.“What am I going to do with my studio?”“Our studio could end up collapsing because we’ll run out of cash flow.”Rather than cancel the project, Kojima searched for a new partner, he approached Xbox with a different vision: Physint would not just be a game, but a new IP that could expand into movies, anime, music and other entertainment.“I’m making this new IP, and I want to consider everything like movies, dramas, anime, TV, comics, music.”Xbox responded positively, and the partnership developed from there, the team was reduced, with some developers moving to OD, but work on Physint continued.“The work didn’t stop. I’m still doing the concept.”Kojima confirmed he does not know whether Physint will still be released on PlayStation, that decision will depend on Xbox,He said Sony never explained why it withdrew funding, but he has no bad feelings toward the company after decades of working together.
It's over
He's such an incredible grifter that he is not even aware of his grifting ability.He's a con man that's managed to con even himself.Bravo HideoBravo Kojima
>>748082102Based Kojimbo. I hope this works out for him.
He's one of the few real artists still alive. Anything made for profit is a product, not art.
He made two games that flopped and shitted under Sony, why would they keep him
>>748082102Kojimbo's games are already movies so how can he expand them?
Even kojima thought he was playing it safe with Physint
He's 63 years old. He has two maybe three games tops. By the time he finishes Physint he'll be 69 or 70. Not sure if Physint will be an ongoing series, unless he plans on letting his company continue it if he steps down as director and takes more of a producer role in his 70's.
>>748082102>acclaimed director recieves Godlike status>ruins it at the end of their career and exposes themselves as a massive hack/fraudWhy is this so common?
>>748082102>>748082469So we are clueless as he is?They even posted in their Twitter about it
>>748082589Sign of a real one
El Fijinto multimedia...
>Im the greatest game creator in the World!>What, what do you mean I no longer have infinite money from Sony? Do you expect me to self publish my own celebrity trash, are you crazy?>Time to blow up Microsoft, that never goes wrong!Famous last words
>>748082102>Hideo Kojima has revealed what happened when Sony stopped funding Physint>Kojima said Sony called him to a Zoom meetingHow vile.
>>748082469He said he thought Physint is safe, not he was playing it safe with Physint, retard
>>748082589Ends up that they always got someone to tard wrangle them, then when they get too high on their own farts, they think themselves geniuses that need no tard wrangling anymore, so they churn out weird flops
>>748082102Frankly we never got a clear answer as to why Sony has been making so many poor decisions recently that alienate their own fanboys. One might assume they are saving money for something, but that doesn't make sense given that they are still funding bullshits like Fairgame and Horizon online. Perhaps they are banking on GTA 6, but the resulting bad rep would directly result on more console sales for their competitor(Xbox) since the game is not an exclusive.There are a couple missing pieces in the puzzle...
>>748082469>I had just gone to New York for a Prada event and then to LA right afterWhy is a game dev attending a Prada event What does this accomplish
>>748082894Infiltrated by the likes of Sweetbaby inc. To destroy the industry from inside with woke shit
>>748082894Sony has been going full retard for a while but Kojima's shit was never profitableDeath Stranding 2 selling under 2 million was the last straw and it was an actual good call to cut Kojima
>>748082797Both is true, Physint was the safer choice over DS3
>>748082102>Physint would not just be a game, but a new IP that could expand into movies, anime, music and other entertainment.Kojima will invent the concept of Concord, too...
>>748082102>Sony uses Zoom because they don't want to use Microsoft TeamsLMAO
>>748082894They wanted to continue funding their failing pet projects while keeping line from going down. Kojima was the pet of the previous regime so he was expendable.
>>748082589they stop working amongst peers and instead start working amongst people who hold them in reverence
What is Death Stranding like? I keep hearing mixed things. Most people say it's a boring walking simulator and the plot sucks or is underwhelming. I didn't play it because I just finished MGSV and Peace Walker and it left a bad taste on my mouth.
>>748082924Gaming is big enough that everyone wants a piece of the pie
>>748082102What a diva. Brand? Movies? Animes? Why not a restaurant chain too. Make good games that's all we want moron. Cut down on hiring expensive hollyjew actors. JUST MAKE GOOD INEXPENSIVE GAMES.
>>748083036>Death Stranding 2Sony requested a story rewrite for that because Kojima predicts too much, and there was covid on top of that, so they are to blame for the more than expected dev costs.Good thing this happened for Kojima, because Sony was also pushing for the hyperrealist graphics. He has creative range to do other lower budget stuff like a 2d solar sensor game, a mecha game, and even a weird ds game about stock markets, and he can do that as well. He could even get new aspiring actors or troupe actors for cheap instead of hollywood a-list and he'll definitely find willing talent to work with him.
>So in June, SIE said they wanted to have a Zoom call. I was so busy at that time — I had just gone to New York for a Prada event and then to LA right after. But anyway, I came back and we had this Zoom call.Lmao yeah kojima is retiring after physint flops.
>>748083302the first 3 hours are pretty cool and then it falls off
>>748083302Relatively in depth delivery game. Before you set up roads you have to plan routes. DS1 had a certain feel which was good. The game is effectively marmite though, you either like it or you don't. I made fun of it when someone streamed it but honestly I liked playing it.DS2 is a bit of a travesty, gameplay wise it's got more going on for it but the story is shit, not to mention even on the highest difficulty they added, the truck can still effectively go almost everywhere.To give you an idea of how bad the story is, you do one main delivery then mandatory cutscene in the magellan. Over and over.
>>748082894They're getting Kojima's games anyway. They don't need to suck his dick and teach his team how to use their in-house engine
>>748083302I loved it. It's going the extreme opposite of what's expected from big budget AAA games. Yeah there's jank in it, physics are inexcusable for a game about driving around, hiking and climbing but you eventually make your peace with it. You stay for the atmosphere, that's a zen trip into an alien dead world. Also the ending was heartwarming, all the struggle was worth it for the finale with Lou.You get many tools to experiment with yet I find it lacking in challenge, play using the hardest difficulty and stay offline.I don't know anything about DS2.
>>748082924Kojima Productions sells merch which includes lots of closes and fashion shit. I'd hazard a guess he is involved in the fashion industry for reasons related to that
>>748083446He knows that there are plenty of rumors of him being a diva using big corps deep pockets to parade his Hollywood buddies, and then he says stuff like that. LmaoA PR nightmare, is all I can see. I dont even think he's a spender, just a bit over the average, but that's a really bad call.
>>748082224Kill yourself retard
>>748083302it's ludo kino
>>748082924He had an exhibit with the guy that plays Heartman in Death Strandinghttps://www.prada.com/ww/en/pradasphere/special-projects/2025/satellites-prada-aoyama.html
>>748083302>Most people say it's a boring walking simulator and the plot sucks or is underwhelming"Walking simulator" is the most fun part of the game. The environmental and background storytelling about the World and the Strand is actually pretty good. But the "main" story about Sam and his sister and Bridges and the cinematic cutscenes...that stuff all sucked imo. It's a fun game but it doesnt let itself be a game for many hours at a time.
>>748083302Its not that great. Story is decent but honestly I'd recommend jus watching it as the gameplay is that lame. Wondering around with clunky as shit controls only to get an even clunkier boss fight is shit. If you just came from MGSV and PW you'll find it annoying as fuck.
>>748082102>Zoom meeting
>>748083791he deserved to get cancelled
To summarize the articles, Kojima Productions Post and everything else.>PHYSINT came to be around 2020, after Kojima fell ill, and considered it due to fan request (even if he didn't want to make another MGS type game) and how much time does he have to make games after said fact>He expressed this idea of a game with former Sony chief, Jim Ryan. And the project was sort of initiated by Sony.>He spent time conceptualizing the game despite the announcement in 2024, with latest reports that Kojima was still working on conceptual stuff over actual development. >SIE calls for Kojima to a Zoom call in July 2026. Kojima doesn't say who delivered the message out of respect.>Kojima says that Sony gave them no explanations, and that they wouldn't continue to fund the project.>Kojima was left confused and sort of worried for the Studio, due to the people he had already set to work on the project, and it would take a massive hit to the company. He adds, that although Jim Ryan retired, he believed Physint would be safe out of cancellation.>After said meeting Kojima resumed the concept, yet he didn't know how would it continue, so they went to search out for publishers out of fear of losing employees that he hired for the project specifically. No employee was eliminated after the cancellation and were relocated to OD for the time.>While his production company says that the studio is in a healthy and profitable position. Kojima believes that OD wouldn't be able to sustain the company>He spoke with several publishers (not named) but quickly approached Microsoft who were eager to work again
>>748083606I doubt Asha will let that happen. Most likely the agreement with Kojima was to put the game on Xbox and PC only. Phil would've let it happen though.
>>748083036If you look at it and compare the budget was around 150 million but meanwhile Sony is dropping 400 million and 600 million on other games.Plus 1 sold well enough for them to greenlight a sequel so it isn't a long string or series of games they didn't like. It'd be reasonable to drop the series or cut plans for Death Stranding 3.Questionable what they are doing
>>748082102>Rather than cancel the project, Kojima searched for a new partner, he approached Xbox with a different vision: Physint would not just be a game, but a new IP that could expand into movies, anime, music and other entertainment.>“I’m making this new IP, and I want to consider everything like movies, dramas, anime, TV, comics, music.”His game got canceled and instead of making a smaller, less risky project, he goes even bigger. The balls on this man are unreal lmao.
>>748083302I loved the game, but dont trust anyone who says its a misunderstood title that normies never gave it a chance. It's full of autism, you spend a considerable amount of time pressing L2+R2 to hold your cargo and parts of the story are nigh incomprehensible unless you really pay attention, which the average connected human can't anymore. It's ludokino, but for me and few others.
>>748083970That's why he's la creatividad. Winners don't quit.
>>748082224pretty much this. he truly believes the slop that comes out of his own mouth.
>>748083853Corporate faggots and womyn HR more invested in getting lot of inclusivity in games than anything else is what's choking the AAA industry to death. Passionate people get rejected because they give those dumb bitches the "ick".
>>748083908>>Kojima says that Sony gave them no explanations, and that they wouldn't continue to fund the project.That's not what he said. He said he was so shocked that he can't remember why Sony said they are pulling out of the game. The fact that he was in New York for a Prada event and then going to LA right after already explains why Sony got sick and tired of him. Like why the fuck is he not crunching like mad in his office to finish his projects ASAP?
>>748083908>He clarifies now that there's a plot already written and storyboards. And as they work with the Unreal Enigne, they had started to model the actors.>He doesn't resent Sony, nor does he believe there's any dispute. He says that he maintained a relationship with Sony, both personal and business wise. That being said, his company clarified that it's up to Xbox whether the game will be released on Playstation.>He worries over the room for experimentation in game design, and not safe bets over stuff like (namely) GTA VI, likewise he believes that if he studio were to close, he would worry over production companies not wanting to invest in independent studios.>He denies that the Physical stuff had something to do with it. He just wants to own the stuff himself, physical or digital (lol)>He believes that Physint is going to be a milestone for his career and his company. Calling it “This is the biggest selling title I could possibly create,”>Kojima Production denied any claim Bloomberg made (pic rel)
>>748083957>yaaaaaaas my queen jeeta will save me
>>748084087Quote>Kojima said Sony did not provide a reason for the cancellation. Sony did not respond to a request for comment. “We couldn’t understand it,” Kojima said, adding that he wish he would’ve been told earlier in the project. “Jim Ryan had already retired, but I thought this was a project that Sony Interactive Entertainment and I had agreed to team up on and make together.”https://archive.is/20260920111047/https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/09/20/hideo-kojima-explains-surprise-physint-split-with-sony/#selection-671.0-677.258
>>748082224Why are you posting an innocent man? Even Ocelot admits Huey is telling the truth about not knowing about the attack on Mother Base.
>Hideo Kojima: So the work didn't stop. I'm still doing the concept. How I create the game is a little unique. The world, the game system, scenario, the visuals, the design, modeling, I'm still doing that. I'm still casting and also doing scans for the actors. But the game system for the new technology, like enemy AI and stuff, I'm still experimenting on all of this. I have to change the story depending on how the game experiment works. So it's not like we're ready to go, or like it's like a big team already. It's more like a very small team that remained for the crucial parts, and all the others moved to OD.This man really is the biggest grifter in gaming history.Say what you want about Todd at least he's not delusional enough to believe his own hype. Once Phil left and Asha sat him down he complied and started working seriously on the next mainline games.
>>748082102>He said Sony never explained why it withdrew fundingEverybody knows.
>>748082102I saw Hideo Kojima at a 7-Eleven in Tokyo the other day. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off.When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen KitKats in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.”At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical interference,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word.After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
>>748083908>>748084095So he started in 2020 and has nothing to show for it aside from some photos and concept art? And he's surprised Sony kicked him out?
>>748082312Kek he said his intent is to MERCHANDISE the fuck out of SPIN OFF here SPIN OFF there SPIN OFFS everywhere....I WANT PHYSINT MUGS LUNCHBOXES TOILET PAPER I WANT IT ALLLL
So Marathon really did kill this game.
>>748084236yeah sure and I am the pope
>>748083302It's a relatively complex walking simulator interspersed with a movie. Even more cutscenes than MGS4. Open world is completely barren.I would say it's a great game to play while listening to an audiobook or a podcast, but the constant, endless, shitty cutscenes ruin that.
>>748082102So this is how his career finally ends huh?
>>748084248It doesn't say when did he had the talk with Ryan. It just says that after 2020, the concept was sort of started.
>>748082875Pretty much this. They are propped up by an entire support structure of tard wranglers and when they convince themselves said wranglers only hold them back and strike out on their own without them they fall flat on their face
>>748084310Holy shit. Look people, a newfag!
>>748084236>>748084310My dad is Kojima's personal burger chef. He stands on call 24 hours a day always ready and prepared to cook Kojima a burger. The man is insane with his burger requests. Often coming in and saying things like, "I ate very good Texas burger yesterday. Please make me a Nevada burger because Nevada is a good state to try after experiencing Texas greatness. No Oklahoma burger though, can't go Oklahoma right after experiencing much superior Texas greatness. Maybe next month." And then he has to figure out what in the world constitutes a Nevada burger. Usually he is forced to make it up and throw on random ingredients and improvise a bullshit reasoning like putting cactus fruit on the burger because of the desert lands of Nevada and black and red diced peppers for casino chips.
>>748082102>Physint would not just be a game, but a new IP that could expand into movies, anime, music and other entertainment.NO GOD PLEASE NO
>>748084234at least Asha saw the vision
>>748084128https://www.ign.com/articles/hideo-kojima-reveals-what-happened-with-sony-in-exclusive-first-interview-since-playstation-ditched-physint> So my mind went blank when SIE told me. I don't remember so much of that meeting, to be honest with you. And my colleagues probably don't remember as well, so I can't really answer if you ask me what exactly they said.
>>748084354Doesn't change the fact it's been six years he got the green light from Sony to make them their own MGS variant. In the meantime, spending their money minds you, he released a game that was a financial disaster and has been working on another walking simulator to have an excuse about bringing in Hollywood actors.Also notice him constantly mentioning traveling around the world. You think he did this ON HIM OWN DIME? Sony paid, of course.
>>748084405Don't worry, none of that shit is gonna happen because this shit is going to flop
>>748084405CONCORD AND PHYSINT MOVIES YES
>>748084451It does change the fact. Kojima thinking of the idea is not the same thing as telling Sony and getting greenlight.
>>748084310I swear dude>>748084391Thanks for the notice, we really need to dp something with this guy
>>748082224>he says while posting an iconic character from an iconic video game made by a "grifter"
>>748084367Holy shit. Look people, its a guy who took the bait!
>>748084469DS2 is literally the only Kojima game that flopped, everything else made money. People have the memory of a goldfish
>>748084405Yeah just like Mighty No 9
>>748082102https://x.com/KojiPro2015_EN/status/2101631479704883571
I mean... is it really though???
You may have seen a recent article that mentions KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, speculating on the reasons for the change in publishing partners for PHYSINT.Normally, we would not comment on unsubstantiated speculation on the internet, but these aspersions around our relationship with PlayStation, the commercial performance of the DEATH STRANDING franchise, and the broader production planning and investment for PHYSINT, have reached beyond the studio and have touched our fans, our creative partners, and colleagues we have worked alongside with for three decades.None of the claims written came from any official or on-the-record source and as such we encourage you to take them with a dose of scepticism.Make no mistake, this was a serious situation for the studio with a range of potentially significant implications. While we recognise that the article may have caused alarm, we want to reassure you all, for the record: that the studio is in a healthy, profitable state, development for PHYSINT continues to move forward with XBOX, and our relationship with PlayStation remains strong.Thank you for your continued support,KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS
>>748084405Bro that's what Physint was from literally day one
>>748084451If the said time is correct, he had just come off from Death Stranding. A game by 2020 had already made it's budget back, so a sequel and more stuff were fast trackedhttps://www.gematsu.com/2020/05/hideo-kojima-death-stranding-was-profitable-and-recouped-costs-profit-secured-for-next-titleNobody had the providence to say that the sequel would do worse financially, because profit margin and reception wise (at least critically) had been pretty good.Working on a concept that had not been fully developed instead of a sequel to a successful game is not a priority for neither Kojima nor Sony.Also the last part is pure speculation and based if real.
>>748084767I mean if you look at it as the biggest selling thing he currently has the ability to make then yes a MGS clone is probably the game option of all the things he can make now that would sell most
>>748082102>Kojima searched for a new partner, he approached Xbox with a different vision: Physint would not just be a game, but a new IP that could expand into movies, anime, music and other entertainment.
>>748084083Oh yeah Kojima got canned because he's not inclusive and HR enough. Lmao.
Physint will be Kojima's Megalopolis
>>748084952Game of the century?
Not video games
>>748082312Starting from the intent that you are making an IP that will sell books tshirts podcasts music anime is anything but art.
>>748084767A huge reason of why Death Stranding 1 did better than 2, was because out of the hype of Kojima returning. So everyone expected it would be something like MGS or PT, no one expected, well DS. If OD succeeds, just the concept of Kojima doing another "MGS" could make a lot of money regardless of the quality of the product. That it's, if OD succeeds tho. One stinker after another could possibly break the whole "mysticism" behind the guy
>>748082469>Even kojima thought he was playing it safe with PhysintESL or just retarded?
>>748083302I wish it was a walking simulator, the game tries really hard to make you not enjoy any gameplay sections at all because you're constantly bombarded by telephone calls about inane bullshit
>>748085094It's a good game that refuses to let itself just be a game.
>>748085054If OD flops then it over for Physint. And I don't really see the tranny game doing that well. At Kojimas age Physint is probably his last game anyways
>>748083302It attempts to be an interesting walking simulator but after a few hours you realize its still just a walking simulator but with lame cutscenes and random ass hollywood actors for no reason.Get it on sale
wait so Kojima prod doesn't actually have money and they were never an independant studio?
>>748085214Don't worry, MS will make sure to give plenty of reach arounds to key journococks ensuring OD does well enough
>>748084891To be fair, they're doing production on a death stranding movie and making an anime far enough along to get an actual trailer. So there's already lines of communication and industry contacts to get these things made with KojiPro. Not surprising that he won Asha over on the pitch either. Xbox has dollar signs in their eyes over licensing their IPs for movie and TV shows after the mainstream success they got out of the Fallout show and it's just been proven at this point that there are arbitrage opportunities in cross-media promoting. Basically every video game IP with a successful movie or TV adaptation has seen sale bumps for the games in question even when there isnt a new game to be released. Adaptations are already a core part of modern Xbox's business strategy.
>>748082102This dude is up there with Hayao Miyazaki.
>>748083302It's a boring walking / ups driver simulator with a bunch of cool concepts and a bunch of weird shit added on top. That's why it's so polarizing.
>>748085319They're an independent studio that's funded by Sony
>>748084330>Even more cutscenes than MGS4At least they're almost all at the beginning and end. I went over 100 hours without a single cutscene before I got to the end of the game.
>>748085319Studios don't have a billion dollars in the bank dude. That's why they go to studios and distributors who financed the project, and then they make money. That's what makes them independent.A backed end studio (or owned studio) is basically one where the production company calls the shots with the studio, they worked on it, and they are financed to exist until the production company says enough. One is more prone to keep employees, while the other rotates constantly unless you have merits on you.
>>748085485>>748085559so they were never actually independent..
Is he going to pull a Joost on Reedus?
>>748082102He should've just become a movie director.
>>748085596Maybe only Larian is indie now that they made close to 1 billion on BG3. The rest of these ''indies'' are owned by banks through debt.
>>748085596Are you retarded or what
It's over for Kojimbo. Whatever happens from now on he lost his touch a long time ago. There will be fucking hollywood actors in his next games again. That's pathetic. Hollywood isn't videogames
>>748085753I mean if you need money from someone else then you're not indie little nigga
>>748085795That's a yes then.
>>748085758Its going to be funny seeing him getting assraped by Microsoft. If he thinks Sony's Zoom call was bad he better tightens up
>>748085596Getting funded by a larger corporation isn't the same as being owned. That's why they are independent.
>>748084668Kojima apologists are the absolute worst
>>748082224>>748084048If you believe what you say you are not a grifter
>>748085721Tencent own 30% of Larian.
>>748085836nah that's the same. Look at what happened today. Kojimbo lost snoy's support and he was on the street begging for his life the next day. That's not what I call being "indie"
>>748085721Tencent owns a 30% stake in Larian Studios, that's the reason why they decided to back Swen in the first place.Kojima is probably the only game director who can get these mega deals for his games while still retaining ownership of the IPs and the studio.
>>748085991
>>748084946Wasn't specifically talking about kojimbo.
>>748085991If it were the same, Kojima would've likely not been searching for another publisher you retard, if they were owned snoy would be straight up closed the studio. There's a major difference there, they can't be closed other than by themselves.
It's retarded how Sony let Kojima go, but then gives their studios the OK to make shit games like Concord that earn 1 million in revenue and bleed 300m+.So Xbox laid off thousands of devs to save costs, and seeing the opportunity with Kojima they went all in. Kojima's games don't sell many copies. They are more of a concept. Man, the industry is very retarded. I used to think that business people were intelligent, but they are just fucking idiots. But I'm liking how Jap/Korean devs approach their business until now.
>>748086113... so if I leech off my parent's money doesn't this mean that I'm not independent?
>>748085836>my sugar daddy pays for my everything but I'm independent, tee-hee!Dumbfuck
>>748082102>Physint would not just be a game, but a new IP that could expand into movies, anime, music and other entertainment.lmao JesusI've seen this episode before.
>>748082224he has wore the mask too longwake upremove faceput on masklive your liesall of his games are full of it, and he can't help but include japan in inappropriate places constantly toothe constant drama droning on about its not what you do but what you leave behind nonsense or dealing with the effects of what was left behindhe's obsessed with becoming a westerner in the eyes of westerners while also making sure he has no controversy to pass onhis fall is going to be hard indeed and it's so closedeath stranding 1 not being an instant 10/10 masterpiece fucked him up and he's still suffering from death stranding 2 flopping hardhis psyche is coming undoneit won't be long now
>>748084236Powerful
>>748084619>iconic characterthat kojima changes the entire personality and backstory of to suit whatever whim he feels at the timeand also basing the entire appearance on fucking david bowiewhen you realise everything kojima and his team did were just rip offs of western movies and media and great people the works he produced really go down several pegsjapan in general just worship and steal western ideas kojima is a perfect case study for it
>>748082224
>>748082894>Dumping a massive autist who makes shitty movie games is a poor decision
>>748086238If you live in their home, while eating their food and using whatever service they have at home, you are not.If they are giving you a lot money to let's say pay the, yet you live in your own place, buy your own food, pay the bills and still be able to make some money of your own, you are. Obviously that's not the same as being all on your own, but you are independent.That's the difference.
>>748082102I knew this jew rat was lying but if course all the jewtube and journo fags believed him
>>748086432>parrots every youtuber narrativeHave a treat, parrot
>>748082224True
>>748086529that's some high level cope
>>748086252>>748086238Your analogy falls flat, because that's a one way transition. These companies aren't giving money just to be thrown away, they expect their money back and some profit for everyone (mostly them).If it were to be something like a sugar daddy, guess what fucko, they want your ass on a platter.
>>748085991Are you fucking braindead? How do you think "independent" companies work, purely off having some billionaire sugar daddy giving them infinite money to work off?KJP are a private company owned by nobody except Kojima and his partners. They can make any decisions they want, work with anybody and any platform they choose. They literally have no owner or boss that can tell them what to do.The way they work is they pitch games to publishers, those publishers fund the making of those games, the games come out and they take their split on the revenue as per whatever their deal.KJP is in the black and not losing money, but they also don't have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash on hand to pay to run the company and develop games for 5+ years by themselves.
Lolhttps://x.com/KojiPro2015_EN/status/2101631479704883571
>>748086590It's sadly funny that people have been parroting that Kojima constantly wastes money and blows budgets when one of the first things he said once his Konami gag order expired was that's some weird myth that came out of nowhere, his games there never ran over budget
Anyone made mods on PC to make death stranding a greater challenge? Or is it hard to modify so the community didn't bother?
>>748082102>Kojima said Sony called him to a Zoom meeting in June and told him they could no longer fund the projectDespicable. You don't just fire Geoffs best friend like that. Can't wait until the EPIC roast at the TGA.
>>748086619i don't watch youtube, faggotbut evidently you doeat all the treats you like
Wait, wasn't he already producing a movie? I swear during one of the videogame award shows there was an ending shot of him in a studio and the camera zooming away to reveal it was in Hollywood.
>>748082102A fucking zoom call... they ended a 30 year relationship with a fucking zoom call, the MGS series was a MASSIVE success for sony and a system seller for decades thanks to Kojima and they end everything via a fucking zoom call, just shows how out of touch the new suits are at sony, fuck this company.
>From my side, I love Sony. And I don't have any bad feelings against them because I know that it's a tough time in the game industry.>I've been working with them for like 30 years… Mr. Ken Kutaragi, Mr. Hirai, I was close with them. But it's not like that recently. I realized that, okay, this is the reality. drop Herman Hulst into a vat of acid
>>748086756I have no doubt Kojima spends a lot money but it's just silly when Sony happily pumps out 300 million dollar mediocrity like Wolverine and is still trying to salvage their muti billion dollar investment in Bungie and Marathon. DS1 and 2 have higher players counts than Marathon right now, just to give you an idea of how badly that game is doing. And don't forget the upcoming disasters Fairgames and Hunter Gathering lmao. It's a clown show over there.
>>748082894They want to exit gaming market to focus on AI.
>>748082102I wish I could cut funding to Kojima over a zoom call.The Xbox lady accepted to fund Physint for the time being, so she can have that zoom call with La Creativitad later, what a lucky cunt.
I know this thread is about Genius Kojimbo, but...How the fuck did Zoom sweep in and steal the attention of so many midwits in the business world? How did they so thoroughly eat Google and M$'s lunch when Google Hangouts and Skype were already existing products?I fucking hate Zoom.
>>748087983Because skype was already down the shitter and absolutely terrible once you went past 3 people in a group call. Zoom was there when Carona hit
>>748082102>There are absolutely no major games which require a PS4 instead of a PS5.I often think about this when deciding to buy a console. Sony makes their hardware platforms obsolete and then cut future game development too. It has been happening for almost 20 years. Then they are removing physical sales, physical drives, so games won’t even work; Prompting to buy digital in the price fixed store at every step. So they get more profit and I get less use out of playing.Xbox and Kojima will save gaming again. Sony’s media strategy, across films and games, might not be enough. They don’t have a business sense relating to driving new users to the Playstation brand. They just have been abusing the brand and micro-managing licensing. If Xbox keeps landing the best devs that’s where people will go.
>>748087983google meeting was/is dogshit
OD was officially announced in 2023 the only thing he's shown since then is the "purple dinosaur" teaser lolhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rIuGgdoabJA
>>748088110Wrong you stupid piece of shit.
>>748088187prove me wrong you dicksucker
>>748088261>me wrongYou said it yourself. Youre wrong.
>>748082924You have to play the game according to your level or the other sharks smell blood and start fucking with you. Either you put effort into that or it comes naturally from your rich family or whatever, but there is no opt-out unless you go to one of those doomed companies that pays 60% market rate for work/life balance. And that's just corporate management. C-suite? Fuck that.The only reason I wish I had pursued a field that offered me a license is because aside from nepo-IT it's the only way to make decent money without having to do shit like that.
>>748082102>I’m still doing the conceptThe game will be getting canceled again in 5 years
>>748082224Reminder MGSV is about Kojima (Big Boss) sabotaging Konami (MSF) on purpose. Its literally the plot of the game.
>>748087404Sony is able to savage Wolverine and fire the director of the game cause they own the studio. They don't own Kojima and are at his mercy as to whether he can make a megaseller for them. If they are not happy with the progress of Physint can they fire Kojima and replace him with someone else?
>>748086756>his games there never ran over budgetHe may have kept MGS V to $100 million but the big problem was that he was on the trajectory of going over budget since he wanted to do more and more with the scope and the new CEO who had built up bad blood with him over 2 years was bringing in higher profits through mobile. That forced out Ground Zeroes on it's own to bring in some cash flow and led to cut content like Kingdom of the Flies.
>>748082102I like the part where he called himself an indi dev while jetsetting to prada events and hiring holywood actors.
>guys im making a game here's all the celebrities Sony already paid forDo you guys think this shit will even see the light of day? OD isn't even out yet.
>>748082102>Sony called him to a Zoom meetingJesus they fired his ass like a Bungie programmer>He said Sony never explained why it withdrew fundingClearly they didn't want to continue working with Kojima if his games were going to continue being ported to PC anyways. In a post-Bungie buyout world they probably viewed it as funding their own competition with a value loss on Playstation's brand.
>>748088552Kingdom of the Flies/Episode 51 was cut early in development, it was quite literally never meant to be in the game even if the fallout with Konami and the game being behind schedule hadn't happenedThe behind the scenes thing for it that came with the game showed it was literally beyond the scope of what the Fox Engine could even doIt's like how people think that mini Metal Gear you build in the game was cut because he got booted, when it was something he cut because it was shit and unfun when they made a test build of it
>>748082102> Physint would not just be a game, but a new IP that could expand into movies, anime, music and other entertainment.Can't wait for this con shit to flop and Kojimbo finally gets blacklisted from the industry
>>748082102After everything Kojima has respect and knows how not to burn bridges
>>748082894I think you got used to Microsoft being able to afford infinite loses because of Minecraft/MS and Nintendo with overpriced hardware.Sony is selling consoles at loss, all of their games are losing money, their CEO bet the entire company of live service shit with Bungie and everything is falling apart. The next horizon game got a forced reboot and might get cancelled. And it's obvious they're scared to show fairgames if it even exist.They're only making money taking a 30% on everything and psn subs, they hare hemorrhaging money like crazy.
>>748087216Have you read the article. He hadnt even finished the concept for the game before sony fired him. Why can't he fund his celebrity trash on his own?
>>748084163He may not have been guilty of THAT but saying he was innocent is wrong. That nigga was guilty of a lot of things.
>>748089028Sony announced this game way too soon, at that time Kojima was still working on 3 games at the same time and now faggots cry when he can't show much... this is their fault, fucking idiots
>>748082102Sony is making everything in their power to give Xbox (USA) a chance of growth and this is why Japan will forever be a cucked nation and should have been nuked several times more. This is why China will win and Japan will collapse.
>>748088826It was 35 to 40% complete and is important to the story, it was meant to be released. The next game would have been liquid snake 5 or 6 years later. Although it may have been intended as DLC the episodic approach came about because Kojima knew he was going to need cash flow to keep Konami off his back. The whole falling out boiled down to his creeping scope vs the profitability of mobile which was pushed by the CEO
>>748089089>Sorry Sony, Kojima is busy jetsetting and 3D scanning Hollywood actors. That's how you make real art. Call next time please.
>>748083302You shouldn't play it. With all we went through in COVID the game is insanely creepy, depressing, and demoralizing. Wouldn't be surprised if Kojima is getting invited to Diddy parties now.
>>748082224>He's such an incredible grifter that he is not even aware of his grifting ability.The irony to this post is that you included an image of Kojima's self-insert next to it. If you play MGSV understanding that, it's pretty clear that Kojima had a fairly low opinion of himself.>Huey is Kojima>MSF is KojiPro>Cipher, XOF, and Skullface are Konami>Ocelot and Miller are staff (both worker for Cipher)>Venom Snake is you, the player>Otacon (in the context of MGSV) is either his innocence (MGS1-2) or symbolic for what he's doing to Metal Gear as a whole>Huey (Kojima) betrays MSF (KojiPro) to Cipher (Kojima) under the guise of helping them so he can pursue his own projects (Sahalanthropus = the Cassette Tape Trilogy (PW/MGSV), PT, DS)>Nine years between GZ and TPP (nine years from Kojima being brought on to co-direct MGS4 and his falling out with Konami/the releases of GZ and PT)>He experiments on his own son (PW/MGSV) in pursuit of perfecting his tech>He was a member of KojiPro (MSF), but was never seen as a member of Diamond Dogs (those that survived)>Diamond Dogs are a gang of post-apocalypse survivors in Bowie's song of the same nameAnd so on, and so on.Once you see this it just keeps spiraling, especially once you see how heavily Huey was retconned and rewritten for MGSV specifically to reinforce these ideas.
>>748082952I wish this was just cynical chuddite slop, but it's actually what's happening. People who hate everything about the stock market are everywhere. They don't care if it's games and there's actual passion involved. Anything that has consumers, especially anything with lots of white people, they flock to and want to destroy it, and somehow they take up the majority of generational youth starting with Millenials and beyond. Sometimes I don't even know what happened, but to be honest growing up I remember gushing about video games with one of my buddies after he became more of a history buff and him just saying>Yeah... I guess at the end of the day it really is all just about money.I sometimes wonder what it is idealogues want. There's nothing I hate more than just being in other people's company, relaxing and "being social". I need it sometimes, but are they just imagining a world where everyone's always sitting in a circle together doing nothing? Why do they believe it's bad that there are CEOs who earn more than the rest, while many are being slave-driven to produce a game, which people buy with savings that they enjoy and talk to their friends about?In this boring fucking world it's still the best remedy I've had. Short of ensuring reproduction and survival of humanity as a species I can't square why entertainment has so much scrutiny, other than blind jealousy and hatred from anarchists.
>>748082102>Our studio could end up collapsing because we’ll run out of cash flowShouldn't a game studio be able to support itself from sales of its games?
ofc its the jew that defend big company
>>748082894>Perhaps they are banking on GTA 6, but the resulting bad rep would directly result on more console sales for their competitor(Xbox) since the game is not an exclusive.This is exactly why, they are doing all the bad shit right before the big release so after 3 months of non stop GTA spam people will stop complaining and go "huh yeah that happened".
>>748082224Kojima has made several games that I enjoy.Sony has made zero.
>>748083167It's strange how much ownership Kojima feels towards Physint because my gut reaction when it was announced with Hermen in that video, was that Hermen being the shit boss he is, was like "Omg Dead Stranding really isn't that popular, why is Kojima not making METAL GEAR style games? Kojima-san, why aren't you making something like METAL GEAR??"And it's kinda what we want but also, no... It's the same as Shinji Mikami making The Evil Within. They're not bad but between actually making Resident Evil or something fresh, people will always prefer something fresh. I'm much more excited for OD than for the idea of "Not-Metal-Gear".
>>748089489Kojima is still an indi dev figuring out how to make a game. Give him some slack.
>>748089426>Sahelanthropus is the best proof I never betrayed you guys! The reconstructed Sahelanthropus skull looked exactly like the skulls we used as our logo nine years ago in the Caribbean. The design was based on Pangea, the supercontinent that exist 250 million years ago, right? I felt the same way about Sahelanthropus. Sure I was forced to build it under their orders, but I always wanted to put that technology back in our hands some day. That's the reason I incorporated our old insignia into Sahelanthropus' name. >Don't you see? That's how much I was thinking of you guys!
>>748089516Yeah the guy working with overpaid jewlywood actors is going to save us.
>>748089426>to Cipher (Kojima)Meant Konami here.
>>748082102
>>748083302It's like MGSV-lite but with a better and more structured linear path you take, and honestly reminded me a bit of MGS2. It has the same feeling where as you go forward, you get codec calls, and it feels like a stretch goal to reach the next major city, where some more exposition happens. Then there are parts where you have to go back to previous places again, and a bit of a "return to the beginning" style narrative where all the biggest moments happen at the end.Gameplay wise it's not that bad, but people got filtered by the lack of a normal power fantasy. Managing what you carry is actually well designed, and became kind of addictive, but people obviously want a militaristic plot with guns and battle drones and all this shit. It's not that, so instead it's just sort of a shooter-lite, but where you look at some mountains and figure out how the hell you're gonna cross them, without dropping the things you're carrying, while level design triggers happen, and plot exposition radio calls happen, and then there's Kojima-ass cutscenes that mostly just consist of 2 characters talking for 40 minutes between every major stop.
>>748084087Because Kojima is likely set for life even if the studio goes. He isn't going to sacrifice his quality of life for Sony.
>>748082102He probably would've been okay releasing Physint to mid sales but cranking the investments to the tune of hundreds of millions so it can be multi-media (and flopping), I don't see the indian lady at Microsoft giving Kojima second chances. It's kind of fucked though I'm willing to believe the only reason Kojima got picked up by Microsoft is through an agreement that physint needs to be like 10 different things cause they saw what Cyberpunk was doing (.hack did it better).
>>748082102>leave that fucking sony company to me
>>748085950>>748086003Larian is privately owned. Unless Swen would lose the controlling 51%, the other shareholders can do jack shit.
>>748082102Sony has been making retarded decisions for over a decade, especially with the current leadership. The fact of the matter Cuckmann can get infinite budget for something that will never make its money back but Kojima gets shitcanned is testament to this.
>>748089939If Tencent cuts the funds Sven would have to fire 2/3 of the employees. He went trigger happy hiring and opening new studios to the point he can no longer self publish
>>748089572Yeah like Ghost Babel, and... uh...
>>748082894Epstein Jews doing Golden Calf on Sony. They are planning to sell Sony to Palatanir or something. Screencap this.
>>748089869I think it's going to be a quantum break/control knockoff and that Xbox is going to leverage the studio who made those to make Kojima actually make the game instead of fucking around.
>>748089756kill yourself slopper
>>748090010If kojimas games are successful and always make a profit why cant he just fund it himself?
>>748089930Damn he's tall, do they even have motion capture suits for giants like this dude?
>>748090134Because the profits have to largely go to the original investors in the game. This is the problem with being in debt. You don't get out.
>>748090134The first Death stranding needed years to break evenDS2 outright flopped
>>748090048>If Tencent cuts the fundsWhat funds? Are you retarded? Do you think Larian is getting a fucking stipend from Tencent? Do you even know how shareholding works?
>>748089572>admits hes a trannyWhy? Why did you do that? Nobody forced you to post...
>>748082102>no sourceHello ChatGPT
>>748089930I bet he has a big dick
>>748090134Kojima blew millions of hollywood A-list and B-list actors to do stupid shit in his games instead of hiring D-list actors for a reasonable price that are almost always guaranteed to not have a busy schedule so he can make more games in a shorter timeframe like MGS.
>>748090269>Sonyfag calling anyone else a tranny
>>748090265Yeah, they are getting money leases from Tencent, retardkun. Tencent expects to recover them from dividends
>>748082102>The work didn’t stop. I’m still doing the concept.so there is no work and he's just burning the budget on hanging out with c-list celebrities every day like death strandingthis hack will never get what's coming to him
>>748089207No it wasn't, they had two cutscenes that were "30% complete" made with completely recycled assets, some partial voice work and zero mocap or actual visual direction done. They had absolutely no gameplay or original assets made for it. It's why most of the video was concept art, talking about things not even possible in the engine.All for a mission miles beyond the scope of any in the main game and beyond even Ground Zeroes, just to explain the side story of where Liquid went.
>>748090354He shouldn't have burned Hayter to go for Keifer. That was a huge mistake. Fans love Hayter and would be even more willing to buy Kojima games if he had some presence in them just because of the "WOW ITS SNAKE!" factor
>>748090403>Yeah, they are getting money leases from Tencent, retardkun.God, you really ARE stupid.
>>748088552>>748089207The only cut content in MGSV was>Battle Gear (a cut mode of play in the overworld, simply because it was too unbalanced and not worth rebalancing considering what it was meant to be)>the ability to point your gun at Skullface during his speech (several cut lines associated with that)And that's about it.Episode 51 was CANCELLED though. Not cut.It was a planned post-release DLC that got cancelled for unknown reasons early in development. I wouldn't even be surprised if Kojima did that on purpose for some thematic reasons, since it's utterly bizarre that any cutscenes for it are even partly finished, as usually that would be one of the last things you work on.
>i'm still doing the conceptSo he did an entire photo op and hired a bunch of actors and still has no idea about the game?
>>748090579MGS5 made more money the day it came out than Avengers Endgame did, Kojima's games did not suffer from moving on from a c-list part time voice actor
NO METAL GEAR SOLID FOR YOU PONY'S
>>748090738And he would've lost nothing but keeping Hayter and would've made more without Keifer's salary
>>748090579Kiefer did a great job, even Hayter later admitted Kiefer did great when he eventually played it and got over the grudge. And ultimately he was mostly voicing a character that wasn't big boss
>>748082102sony's anti japanese game madness even hit kojima
>>748090726It's not a linear process.
>>748090764Hayter would have unironically cost more than Kiefer
>>748090781And has Hayter been in any Kojima game after? Hmm?
>>748090849Gonna need a citation for an insane claim like that, anon.
>>748090760It will be on PC. Xbox doesn't have exclusives and it's impossible to pivot back when game pass only has 30 million subs, they don't have the scale. The problem xbox has next gen is that whilst they will think they're really clever bundling the console into a game pass subscription, Sony will do the same thing. Neither of them can sell a $1300 console so it all has to be bundled for $50 a month like an iPhone contract and the majority will go with Sony. Xbox wind up being a third party publisher and putting it on PS6/PS+ to get their money back.
>>748090936Sony has gone insane
>>748087404They do that because it's Marvel property, which is proprietary of Disney, which is jewish, and funds Israel...
>>748090854No because Kojima wants Hollywood friends and not C tier voice actors
>>748090936imagine hating on the man who literally tries to save you from this stale as fuck industry, you niggers truly deserve the "sony games template"
